Climate activists to march on Google’s campus in protest of Inhofe fundraiser

Demonstrators will amass on Google’s Mountain View headquarters Wednesday morning to protest the search giant’s decision to host a fundraiser earlier this month for climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe.

The Oklahoma Republican famously declared that “global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” despite a wide body of science research to the contrary.

Members of 350 Silicon Valley, Forecast the Facts and other organizations will deliver a petition signed by 50,000 people calling on the company to “stop funding climate denial.”

The activists say they hope to point out to Google’s “environmentally-minded and science-oriented employees and management,” that their company helped raise funds for one of the most prominent and enthusiastic global warming deniers in Congress. He’s also got a horrendous record on gay rights.

“Google’s employees have a unique opportunity to tell their employer that staying true to ‘Don’t Be Evil’ should mean not funding people like James Inhofe, who stands against everything Google stands for,” said Brad Johnson, campaign manager for Forecast the Facts, in a statement.

It’d be unconscionable for any organization to lift a finger to help the antiscience lawmaker translate his medieval beliefs into public policy or spread more dangerous misinformation on the gravest challenge of this generation.

But it’s especially galling and disappointing for a company whose self-proclaimed mission is improving the lot of humankind through the power of accurate information. Never mind a company that has publicly stressed the importance of clean energy and whose own chairman called out climate change deniers as fabulists.

… (Inhofe) is not the type of person whom reasonable, thoughtful people invite over for a meal. This is the type of person whom reasonable, thoughtful people – people who supposedly cherish science, data and reason – call out as dangerous and unfit for public office.

The protest will begin at 9 a.m. on Wednesday at Garcia Avenue and Marine Way in Mountain View.